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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Bernard Cornwell

A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Battle Enemy Men Watching
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don’t take chances then you’ll never have a winning hand, and I’ve no regrets.
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Hands Regret Winning
Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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Arared Fate Ful Inexorable
Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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Day Every Ordinary Unit
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
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Amass Army Children Feasts Land
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
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Achieve Funny Inspirational Ocean
You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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Men Pass Regret Women
You know what circumcision is, Private?
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Circumcision Knows Private
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
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Friendship Kings Queens Writing
Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.
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Change Land Tribe War Winning
Writing is a solitary occupation.
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Occupation Solitary Writing
So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Book Far Years
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold… doesn’t bear thinking about, but I suppose we’d have made it work somehow.
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Book Firsts Sold Suppose Thinking
We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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Build Destroy Son
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life… Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Love Men Thinking Wanted Wrenches
And yes, there’s a simplicity to writing books because you’re not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Book Decision Team Writing

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